Polinices uber

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolinicesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Polinices
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Polinices
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Polinices
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Polinices uber on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
22 occurrences- Miocene4%
- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene68%
- Holoceneunder 1%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
10 formations
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation3
- Imperial Formation2
- Estratos de Caldera Formation2
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- Wildcat Formation1
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The named rock units Polinices uber has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polinices uber and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Polinices uber and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
542 taxa- Mexicardia procera5 sites
- Modulus5 sites
- Oliva peruviana5 sites
- Anomia peruviana4 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus4 sites
- Choromytilus chorus4 sites
- Codakia distinguenda4 sites
- Concholepas concholepas4 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata4 sites
- Divalinga eburnea4 sites
- Dosinia dunkeri4 sites
- Euvola keepi4 sites
- Leukoma thaca4 sites
- Malea ringens4 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) unifasciata4 sites
- Oliva spicata4 sites
- Anodontia edentuloides3 sites
- Architectonica nobilis3 sites
- Arcinella californica3 sites
- Arcopsis solida3 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus3 sites
- Atilia3 sites
- Calyptraea mamillaris3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Polinices uber, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
15 references- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas4
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0003
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California3
- Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Deposits and Age of the highest Marine Terrace from the Sacaco Basin and its Environs (southern Peru)1
- Quaternary invertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal marine ecosystems of Bahia de Panama, Panama1
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Pliocene Invertebrates From the Travertine Point Outcrop of the Imperial Formation, Imperial County, California1
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands1
- Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History expedition to western Mexico. Part 7: Corals and coral reefs in the Gulf of California1
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico1
Each of the 22 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Polinices uber
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Polinices uber was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPolinices through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1821)